PORNO FOR PYROS
Begun after the demise of Jane's Addition, Porno for Pyros was the creation of singer/songwriter/entrepreneur/provocateur Perry Farrell. Though the band sported a different guitarist and bassist, the music of Porno for Pyros, which combined Led Zeppelin-style hard rock with punkish insouciance and art-rock pretentiousness, was not all that different from that of Jane's Addiction. Farrell's persona, meanwhile, remained consistent. In Porno for Pyros as in Jane's Addiction, Farrell came off as a seeker of higher consciousness and practitioner of utter decadence.